Thursday, November 18, 2010

Disciplinary hearing of the SABC's suspended group CEO Solly Mokoetle suddenly postponed for a SECOND time.

Is there a worse-run broadcasting institution anywhere in South Africa more decrepit, incompetent, unorganized, confused, spineless and completely out of touch more than the SABC where the South African public broadcaster suspended its group CEO Solly Mokoetle and ordered a disciplinary hearing with 22 charges, only to now have stalled and postponed it indefinitely for a second time? Ludicrous.

After the disciplinary hearing of the suspended Solly Mokoetle started last Monday, only for it to be postponed indefinitely last Wednesday, and then starting again this Monday, it has now been suspended AGAIN, and again indefinitely. Of course SABC license payers money as well as tax payers money are used to pay for the SABC's legal representation in this drawn-out arbitration affair in which the suspended Solly Mokoetle is accused, amongst other things, of failing to draft and implement a turnaround strategy for the beleaguered broadcaster.

It's almost December and bonus time. Since working at the SABC seems to work like dog years, the beleaguered Solly Mokoetle who started on 10 January 2010 has basically been group CEO for nine months when he got suspended in September. That's nine, bring over the 2 and then . . . 
Which basically now begs the question: Is the SABC board suddenly going to give Solly Mokoetle a R30 million contract payout and ''golden handshake'' just like the SABC's interim board did last August (how time flies!) with the SABC's previous group CEO, who became the previous suspended group CEO Dali Mpofu, who got R12 million?

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